Zambia - Public Broadcasting In Africa (afrimap 2010)
This report written by Chris Chirwa argues that Zambia must make urgent legal reforms within the media sector, especially given government\'s own acknowledgement in 2006, when it unveiled its Fifth National Development Plan, in which it admitted that: \'existing legislative framework within which the media operate does not sufficiently provide for freedom of the media, freedom of information and good governance.\' The report therefore, states that such an acknowledgement, gives firm cue for positive and speedy action to put in place new progressive media legislation and repeal existing laws that impede freedom of media and freedom of information in the country. Zambia currently has legislation that restricts media freedom, amongst which is the Penal Code, which amongst other things, deals ambiguously with sedition and criminalises defamation, it also empowers the President of the country to ban publications. There is the State Security Act, which is redundant, given the fact that Zambia is no longer threatened by its neighbours, the Anti-Terrorism Act, which is a tool can be subject to abuse by authorities in power, as well as the National Assembly (Powers and Privileges) Act granting unreasonable protection from criticism of law makers. The Zambia country report has 62 key recommendations in the media laws and operations of the public broadcaster, Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation (ZNBC), divided into 9 sections: media laws; the broadcasting landscape; digital migration; broadcast legislation and regulation; ZNBC funding; programming; perceptions of ZNBC; broadcast reforms and key recommendations.
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